We had a great day fishing with Capt. Charlie. He is very knowledgeable and courteous. He is really a friendly and professional guy to have a fun fishing trip with. We caught mostly mahi-mahi which was our target species. It was exciting to look for the mahi around Gulf Stream currents and sargassum weed lines and then sight cast to them. We also found some and caught them by trolling.  Eighteen mahi-mahi made it to the ice chest. We also caught a bonus barracuda and a black fin tuna. The tuna was my first ever, so I was very happy to add it to my personal list of species caught. My wife and father-in-law each caught both their biggest and most mahi-mahi in the same day. The wind made it a little wavy, but Capt. Charlie drove the boat skillfully and safely. The boat is roomy, sturdy, and quick.  Charlie made it a comfortable, safe trip. Five stars is the best rating but he deserves more. We will definitely be booking another trip. Thanks again for a really great day.

Christmas came early this year on our Oceanside offshore/reef trip with Cap’t Charlie. We were off the dock at 7a sharp and after a quick bait stop (where we quickly grabbed enough ballyhoo for the day) we were out to out first stop.

Charlie put us on fish immediately and we were hooking up and bringing in a wide variety of fish.  We often had 2-3 fish on the line at a time and our party of 4 barely had time to relax and enjoy the spacious and well outfitted boat.  We hit two other spots, each better than the next and had a full box of mutton snapper, red grouper, mangrove snapper, cero mackerel, Bahia tuna, yellowtail, hogfish, barracuda, porgie, amongst others by the end of our 8 hour trip.

Despite a little wind and swells, Cap’t Charlie expertly piloted the boat to ensure everyone was comfortable beginning to end. His experience and expertise were evident as he always had the boat well positioned, the lines baited and helped us get the big fish into the boat.  We heard on the radio that other boats were not doing that well that day but we had a banner day due to Charlie’s expert fishing skills and captaining. 

Overall a great day on a great boat with a great captain.  We’ll definitely book again with Against The Grain on our next trip and recommend you do the same. You won’t be disappointed, see the attached pictures, they speak for themselves.

Thank you again Captain Charlie!

We had originally scheduled a reef fishing trip, but Captain Charlie reached out the night before to let us know reef fishing had been very slow and asked if we would like to fish for mahi mahi instead. I am so glad he did as it was an awesome day. Even though we didn’t catch very many Captain Charlie worked tirelessly to ensure we each had a chance to bring in our own fish.

Captain Charlie worked hard on both trips. Deep sea is more of a gamble as the trophies may not be hitting on your chosen day. We landed a good king but the sharks made it to him before we could. Also put a nice mutton snapper on the boat. Had quite a few hook ups but Mother Nature was against us. 1/2 day reef trip was fish from beginning to end. Great time for kids and folks looking for a good dinner. Me, I’ll be returning for another deep sea trip as soon as possible!! Tight lines and keep chasing those monsters Cap!

Seems the action is slow this time of year late August early September, but the mahi bite is decent. So we set out for mahi, Capt Charlie was great at keying in on structure and locating the fish. Weather it was a piece of floating bamboo or 5 birds over a bottle, he managed to find life. Wish we could have found some larger grass beds, but he definitely went the distance and we had some nice action. Was a fun day👍🏻